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I found the interesting information about modern police departments. Now most of them will use digital fingerprints for the fastest work and cooperation.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Department will be among the 11 police agencies in five rural counties which will soon have the technology to electronically process fingerprints of individuals arrested in their jurisdictions, enabling law enforcement authorities to quickly and accurately make positive identifications that are crucial to determining how cases against those arrestees will proceed.
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) recently provided grants totaling $105,000 that will allow sheriffs’ departments in Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Schoharie and Washington counties to make the switch from “ink and roll” fingerprints to digital.
With the awarding of these five grants earlier this month, every county in New York State will have at least one law enforcement agency with the ability to electronically capture and transmit arrest fingerprint data.
This infrastructure will allow law enforcement agencies across the state to comply with a mandate requiring that all fingerprint submissions to the state’s fingerprint database at DCJS be made electronically as of January 2010. Smaller police departments with very low annual arrest numbers, for example, will be able to access the technology via their local sheriff’s department or another large police agency in their counties rather than investing in their own systems.
Approximately 92 percent of the remaining 316 agencies in the state process fewer than 225 arrests annually, while 8 percent (24 agencies) process more than 225 arrests a year. DCJS is working to determine the most cost-effective way to allow those agencies to meet the electronic fingerprint submission deadline.
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services is a multi-function criminal justice support agency with a variety of responsibilities, including collection and analysis of statewide crime data; operation of the DNA databank and criminal fingerprint files; administration of federal and state criminal justice funds; support of criminal justice-related agencies across the state; and administration of the state’s Sex Offender Registry and a toll-free telephone number (1-800-262-3257) that allows anyone to research the status of an offender.
